Originally Posted by
readywhenyouare
Retiring the 73G doesn't make any sense. They gain nothing from it. It uses the same pilots and maintenance as the 738/739.
It makes perfect sense. Management gets investors thinking Delta is reducing yet another type (your average investor has no idea what pilots fly what, what plane has what engines etc.) and they get to park 10 airplanes that will probably be fairly easy to sell in a year or so.
and with the 221 and 223 they doesn't really need the 73Gs. EYW can be done on the the 319 if need be and will be a cake walk for the 220, it will be a while before TGU comes back and again and is a cake walk for the 220 and if need be 757, ATL-BUR is almost certainly canceled for a long while.....other than that, the rest of the fleet can do the 73G flying easily.
Originally Posted by
Duke787
Today’s earnings stated 2020 retirement of some portion of the 763ER and A320 fleets (no specific numbers given).
I suspect the A320s will be replaced by A221s and A223s with no range restrictions on them making them suitable for cross country thin routes.
I suspect the 763ERs will be replaced by 764s for South America and in the short-term we’ll see a reduction in secondary Europe service that allows them to use the 764s and A330s on trunk routes and leave the rest of the traffic to AF and KLM.
Perhaps some of those will see the 752 return (which has been notably absent from retirement discussions). Thinking of a route like RDU - CDG which could revert to the 752 in the short term and become an A359 in the longer term.
DL as much as anyone could use Boeing’s NMA to replace that 200-250 segment but I’m not sure we’ll see one from Boeing in this decade. Perhaps DL will convert some A321 to A321XLR to address this segment?
MD88s with IFE, A350s on RDU-CDG....
Some of y'all need to settle down.
Its pretty simple, young 763s flow down to replace old 763s, 764/332s replace those 763s, 333/339s replace the 764s/332s replacing the 763s.
All of this in a time where, you likely wont see whatever stays for the international fleet completely pulled from storage for at least a year or more and plenty of 339 and 359s on order to fill any short term needs. On top of that Delta has plenty of routes that saw smaller aircraft that could have seen larger aircraft, had Delta had them. Delta's management team is well aware of the size difference between the 763 and 339.